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You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim
You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim
Approximate author period: c. 1960 AD · modern
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- Jeannette Walls
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- Approximate author period: c. 1960 AD · modern
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